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The study of monoidal categories originated in the work of Jean Bénabou [Ben] and Saunders Mac Lane [ML1]. In this chapter, we review the basics of the theory of monoidal categories.
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Turaev, V., Virelizier, A. (2017). Monoidal categories and functors. In: Monoidal Categories and Topological Field Theory . Progress in Mathematics, vol 322. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49834-8_1
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